DATE: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:05:40 +1100
SUBJECT: Radio Physics and Remote Sensing of the Corona and Heliosphere: Singapore, August 2012
Announcement of session at the AOGS-AGU General Assembly
Singapore, August 13 - 17, 2012
Radio Physics and Remote Sensing of the Corona and Heliosphere
Motivated by the completion of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in
late 2012, a low frequency SKA Precursor at the Murchison
Radioastronomy Observatory (MRO) in Western Australia, a session
covering one of the MWA key science areas has been convened at the
2012 AOGS-AGU General Assembly, "Radio Physics and Remote Sensing of
the Corona and Heliosphere". The General Assembly will be held in
Singapore, August 13 - 17. The website for the meeting is at:
http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2012/public.asp?page=abstract.htm
General session information and abstract submission will be available
at the website from Sunday January 15. The description for the
session and currently confirmed key speakers are given below. For
further information on the session, please contact Super Science
Fellow at ICRAR - Curtin University, Dr Robert Duffin
(robert.duffin@curtin.edu.au). Contributed presentations for this
session are welcome.
Session Description:
This session is an opportunity for presentations relating to
observations and theoretical models of solar coronal and heliospheric
phenomena that generate or are otherwise associated with radio waves.
Radio physics in the heliosphere is at an exciting juncture with data
from the currently developing solar cycle 24 for multi-wavelength
studies of solar flare and CME events using radio observations from
new ground-based low frequency radio telescope antenna arrays (CSRH,
FASR, FAST, LOFAR, LWA and MWA), satellite radio data from SWAVES,
white light optical imaging of CMEs from the coronagraphs on SOHO
(LASCO) and STEREO, and high-time and high-frequency cadence data from
extreme ultraviolet wavelengths and magnetograms from SDO; together
with high quality X-ray and gamma-ray imaging of the flare site from
Hinode, GOES12 and RHESSI. The session will be structured around
several invited papers on (1) Solar radio emission, CMEs, and a
consistent picture of solar coronal energy release processes -
observations, cartoons, and models (2) Particle acceleration and
propagation in the corona, shocks, radio emission, and coronal
magnetic field structures, (3) remote sensing of CMEs and other
transients in the heliosphere using interplanetary scintillation (IPS)
techniques with extra-solar system radio sources and (4) low frequency
radio emissions in the heliosphere. We seek contributed papers related
to (a) new observations and analysis of radio emissions in the
heliosphere, (b) CME, shock and particle acceleration observation and
theory relating to radio physics, (c) theories of radio emission
mechanisms, (d) space weather forecasting: applications of solar and
heliospheric radio bursts and (e) reports on new instruments and
capabilities for present and requirements for future radio
observatories, from ground-based to space-based.
Section 1:
Gottfried Mann (Theoretical aspects of solar radio emission, CMEs and
a consistent picture of solar coronal energy release processes)
Nat Gopalswarmy (CMEs and radio bursts)
Section 2:
Kazunari Shibata (X-ray events, associated simulations, and
relationships to radio events)
Section 3:
Bernard Jackson (IPS analysis)
Mario M. Bisi (IPS observations)
Section 4:
Divya Oberoi (MWA and low frequency radio emissions in the heliosphere)
Yihua Yan (CSRH and low frequency radio emissions in the heliosphere)
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Professor Steven Tingay
Premier's Fellow
Deputy Director
ICRAR
Deputy Director
Western Australian Radio Astronomy Centre of Excellence
Director, Science and Operations
Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy
Department of Imaging and Applied Physics
Curtin University of Technology
Bentley, Western Australia
Australia
Street address:
Brodie Hall building
1 Turner Ave
Technology Park
Bentley 6102
Western Australia
Email: s.tingay@ivec.org OR s.tingay@curtin.edu.au
WWW: http://astronomy.curtin.edu.au
Phone: +61 (0)8 9266 3516
Mobile: +61 (0)425 771 856